Not true. It's just because of the pandemic that they put exaggerated numbers, if it's real or the news is real, wherever you get it.
I am part of the unemployed people but I am not part of the lazy ones. I can create ways to make money but of course they won't say it's legal because there's no taxation that happens although it's not illegal like selling drugs or weapons.
A lot of jobs had opened ever since social media had been the trend for every human who have a smartphone with an internet.
The possible answer on where the missing percentage is in vlogging, article creators, and more. They are not being counted because they are not part of a company.
When you say, people started vlogging and earning and they are not counted as they are not part of a company, I am remembered of my friend who left an IT job and started up his own youtube channel vlogging. His current earnings is obviously higher than what he was earning in his old company. Why I am saying here is, since social media started booming up, many unemployed, found their way to earn. Many vloggers are so happy at their routine work as they love and do it with more passion.